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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Infant formula prepared with fluoridated drinking water
exceeds the maximum standard for the composition of infant formula as recommended
by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World
Health Organization (WHO) and the European Society for Pediatric
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

The Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary
Uses (CCNFSDU) was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop
food safety standards.

In 2004, in revieving the CODEX standard on Infant
formula they requested additional advice from an international group of
scientific experts in the area of infant nutrition. CCNFSDU asked the Committee
on Nutrition of ESPGHAN (The European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition) to initiate a consultation process with the
international scientific community to provide a proposal on nutrient levels in
infant formulae, based on scientific analysis and taking into account existing
scientific reports on the subject.ESPGHAN in collaboration with its sister societies in the Federation of
International Societies on Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and
Nutrition, invited highly qualified experts in the area of infant nutrition to
form an International Expert Group (IEG) to review the issues raised.

The final
report (JPGN 41:584–599, 2005) was written, circulated to all IEG members,
approved and submitted to the CCNFSDU and its EWG in June 2005 [1].

In their report the committee concluded “that the benefit of
a high fluoride intake during early infancy is questionable and carries the
risk of dental fluorosis. Therefore, maximum levels should be as low as
possible and not exceed 0.6mg per 100 kcal.”

The committee established the maximum energy content (kcal
per 100 ml) for infant formula at 70kcal.At this compositional requirement the fluoride content in infant formula
must not exceed 0.42mg/L [1].

When any of the dry or powered formulas are mixed with
fluoride adjusted water (0.7-1.2mg/L), the fluoride levels to which the infants
are exposed approximate to 1.45 mg/L [2,3].

That is 340% above the maximum recommended limit.

Public health Authorities globally have been aware of these food safety standards since 2005, yet, in fluoridated countries they continue to disregard the scientific evidence and allow overexposure of sensitive infants to a toxic substance that has recently been identified as a developmental neurotoxin.[4].

References

[1] Medical Position Paper 2005, Global Standard for the
Composition of Infant Formula: Recommendations of an ESPGHAN Coordinated International
Expert Group. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 41: 584–599 November
2005

2 comments:

In 2005 global nutritional experts met to determine the maximum safe level of fluorides that could be givento infants. In Novemeber the expert group published their findings in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 41: 584–599 November 2005. If This finding says that formula milk made with artificially fluoridated water contains 340% more than the maximum permitted safe level, why has no warning been issued by Public health authorities in Ireland?